Though I agree with almost everything said in this article, I can't help but realise that this is all feelings driven and not data driven. I also _feel_ that the current direction of generative AI is unsustainable and this will all collapse horribly if companies and investors keep following the current trajectory. But unfortunately we have very little data or precedence, either from this article and in general historically, to support this bias.
I use ai-chat quite a bit and the better it gets, I feel more threatened but that is because it leaves me some free time to think like that. And every other month when ai-chat starts spewing garbage answers, I feel pissed at the AI for making me do my research, but it gives me heart warm knowing that this shit cannot replace me.
I have also come to realise that AI needs to be trained to give you correct answers and cannot simply innovate on its own, which is what it needs to be "revolutionary". Also, our entire tech industry is based on products that do deterministic information retrieval. Whether that is getting accurate numbers from a bank account, or computing medical parameters or the velocity of incoming missiles from a bunch of formulae. AI on the other hand seems like tech that will give out answers like "the sum of 1 and 2 is 3 with 99.9% probability".
In any case, these are all just feelings and though I find myself nodding along with the article, there is no information here that is concrete.
I use ai-chat quite a bit and the better it gets, I feel more threatened but that is because it leaves me some free time to think like that. And every other month when ai-chat starts spewing garbage answers, I feel pissed at the AI for making me do my research, but it gives me heart warm knowing that this shit cannot replace me.
I have also come to realise that AI needs to be trained to give you correct answers and cannot simply innovate on its own, which is what it needs to be "revolutionary". Also, our entire tech industry is based on products that do deterministic information retrieval. Whether that is getting accurate numbers from a bank account, or computing medical parameters or the velocity of incoming missiles from a bunch of formulae. AI on the other hand seems like tech that will give out answers like "the sum of 1 and 2 is 3 with 99.9% probability".
In any case, these are all just feelings and though I find myself nodding along with the article, there is no information here that is concrete.